Color Morph Test

[MinibowMatt]

A few weeks ago I saw a colony of green palys that I liked, but I though may do a color shift in a different tank. After that reefer and I made a trade, I got these green paly's in my tank and went away for 2 weeks. I havent seen them until today, as when I left, the frag was still stressed and closed up.

Here they are today. I have them in my prop tank, under an eggcrate shelf that provides it a lot of shade. The pic is taken under 10K 175MH and is RAW, not edited in any way.

Look at the color! not in anyway green. I have contacted the trader to see if they can post a pic in their tank.. Im really not sure where this color is going, but you can see the purple/baby blue clouding inside the purple, and alot of stardust speckling..
Very cool!

I know the pics arent super, but they are mostly true to what I see. If they were out from under the shelf, I could get a better pic, but I dont want to move them yet..

 

[whodah]

nice - this could be a fun morph to follow!

 

[GreshamH]

Is that a White's in your avatar Whodah?

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Cool! I like the stardust... Makes em feel like they went all Disney on you...


Laurie

 

[ReefWifey]

Hiya,

How interesting! You know, I've always felt the green part is really the speckling or dusting, because the new growth tends to look more purple then green. So I think the green dusting is something that occurs as response to light. I think Whodah did an article at one time discussing 'freckling' and its relation to light. Here's some pics of the mother colony:

This is the colony whilte in the tank of the reefer I bought them from, she had MHs over them:

This is a picture of it in my nano, under 50/50 PC lighting:

This is a picture after I fragged it and it was kind of grumpy, but you can see how the young growth in the center is decidedly less green:

I've just put a frag in my new tank under MH, and I'm very interested to see how they do in there. They're grumpy right now, I'll get a pic soon.

I'm interested to see where they go with you Matt!

Kam

 

[MinibowMatt]

Thanx for posting the pics Kam.. I will post an update shot in about a week...